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U.S. Is Sending Soldiers to Train
African Forces in Sierra Leone

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Greg Jaffe Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Aug. 10, 2000 3:22 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. said it will send as many as 200 American soldiers to Nigeria in coming weeks to train and equip about 5,000 West African soldiers who will be dispatched to Sierra Leone, where they will serve as peacekeepers.

A U.S. team of about 40 soldiers has been in Nigeria for several weeks performing an assessment of the peacekeeping battalions from Nigeria and Ghana, Pentagon officials said. That assessment, which will...